Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.... (Full plot summary below)
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Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonAn early masterpiece by David Cronenberg. |
| VODzilla.coAnton BitelDavid Cronenberg's coolly clinical sci-fi Scanners is mind-blowing art for outsiders. |
| Boston GlobeBruce McCabeScanners, according to David Cronenberg's new film, are people who can control others with their thoughts...The idea has a certain cachet. But Scanners doesn't pay off on it. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrLike Tod Browning, Cronenberg doesn't have the stylistic resources to match the forcefulness of his ideas, but his movies remain in the mind for the pull of their private obsessions. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorThe narrative suffers from convolution (it is trademark science fiction -- deliberately paced, with technology infused with philosophy). |
| The DissolveKeith PhippsThe generous selection of bonus features includes vintage elements, like a trailer made up almost entirely of the exploding-head scene, a handful of radio spots, and a 1981 talk-show appearance in which Cronenberg discusses his work up to that point. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongCronenberg is so great at juxtaposing the surreal with the mundane to generate both creeps and (nervous) laughter. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrOne of the most technically proficient of David Cronenberg's early gnawing, Canadian-made horror movies, though it lacks both the logic and the queasy sexual subtext that made his still earlier work - "Rabid," "They Came From Within" - so memorably revolting. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyUnfortunately the plot thickens so rapidly and so lumpily that one very soon loses interest in spite of the quite stunning and gory special effects. |
| Film Comment MagazineNathan LeeScanners consolidates the ruling problematic of the Cronenberg project from the sex slugs of Shivers to the financial abstractions of Cosmopolis: what are the effects of signals on an organism? |
